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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Maps and More

Enopoletus Harding (a.k.a. "pithom") called my attention to his recent publication of LMLK maps, which in turn led me to discover many other LMLK-related blog entries he's made over the past year. To introduce others to his work, I thought it would be helpful to provide some links with brief commentaries:

(ironically undated) Chronology; very thorough, yet thoroughly wrong beginning at "1,600,000 BC", though kudos for "BC" instead of "BCE" since he's not a Christian; at least we agree completely on the Mandate & State of Israel dates; links to LRW G2T, S2DR, & Rosette pages; also to my 1st BibleInterp article.

August 29, 2011: Reading "The Winged Disk of Judah"- Part 2; interesting statement: "Radiocarbon dating almost ceases to work between the 4th and 8th centuries BC..." Almost? Labor-union isotopes threatened to strike?

November 19, 2011: A History of the Interpretation of lmlk impressions; this is his most interesting contribution in my opinion; I was not aware of a couple of these publications, the phrase "traveling salesmen", or that they & some others were now available online.

November 25, 2011: Why the Lachish III Assemblage Stays Where It Is; another excellent overview of a complicated set of interpretations; links to LRW Rosette page & Seal Sets bar-chart; I had never realized that the Lachish reliefs don't show the city on fire.

December 13, 2011: Rehoboam’s Cities; anachronistic link to his May 2012 Map; "clearly" it does not date to 2011; it seems this post "dates from a combination of periods"; his orthography of "seperate" may help scholars determine when he actually composed it, though we can't rule out a "Hasmonean interpolator".

December 16, 2011: The Solomonic Districts; another "seperate" orthographic datum, separated by 3 days (or 3 possibly million or billion years if you're not sure when a historical narrative refers to ordinary Earth-rotation periods).

December 24, 2011: Why Gunnar Heinsohn Does Not Understand Stratigraphy; "a lack of artifacts does indicate a lack of occupation" ... or looting ... or maybe they were there, but now are just missing as in: "Some billion years are missing from the exposed strata in the Grand Canyon"; how could anyone not understand stratigraphy when he explains it so rationally?; links to LRW Lachish Corpus page.

April 16, 2012: What Is It With the LMLKs at Beth-Shemesh?; links to LRW Corpus page; original (& colorful!) LMLK pie-chart; "instead of the lmlk system being used for solely military preparations, it was used as an emergency non-monetary means of providing wages to government officials." Was it an "emergency" to indicate the age of wine on jars after Sennacherib left?

May 7, 2012: What, no Iron I at Azekah?; why would it matter if LMLKs were found in the new survey if Bliss/Macalister already found some?

May 19, 2012: Khirbet Abu et-Tuwein: MMST After All?; links to LRW Chemistry page; "the jars were sent from Lachish into the central hill country, then back to Lachish, and from there being sent to the other great lmlk-impression-centers"; then one jar said to another, "I just flew in from Lachish, & boy are my arms tired..."

May 21, 2012: A Fortified Storehouse During the Hezekian Revolt?; links to LRW Ramat Rahel & Circles pages; "there is no point in independently moving hundreds of store-jars from a capital city to a fortified storehouse just outside the capital" but there is a point in moving hundreds of them from Lachish to the central hill country, then back to Lachish, then to "other great lmlk-impression-centers"???

May 22, 2012: The LMLK Map, Cursory Edition; another original map, this time featuring little Pac-Babies eating leftovers; links to LRW x4C page.

May 26, 2012: Lions: The Seekrit Impressions; okay, I confess: the first time I read this post, I was stumped--unable to figure out how the ancient site of Seekrit was related to any lion stamps...

May 29, 2012: I Am the Thousandth Visitor To the Home Page of the lmlk Research Website; links to LRW Bullae page; I am very grateful for people like you who have visited the LRW & found it useful, but unfortunately many of the counters are under-valued, having been reset due to unknown circumstances; the true value for the Home page is probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000, but we'll never know; note that several thousand of those hits were probably from me & Michael Welch; the majority of the others are probably from people who mistyped "MLK" (Martin Luther King).

Kidding aside, I think it's wonderful that Mr. Harding is researching these fascinating subjects, sharing his thoughts with everyone, & that he was able to make use of some info from the LMLK Research website.